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10 Dec 2016 1:31:17pm

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Another conspiracy theorist! Mr Aly would have us believe in the conspiracy theory that 19 Saudi Arabians hijacked four planes and perpetrated all of the carnage. However, he does appear to have priveleged access to information not available to the rest of us when he writes that bin Laden's guilt is plain. Now bin Laden may well have been guilty of something, but I have never seen the plain evidence to which Mr Aly refers. Mr Aly then puts down his quiver and devotes his energies to drawing his long bow and manages to get Huntington into the piece and morph into multiculturalism in Australia. My only surprise was that he didn't manage to draw Bernard Lewis into his argument. Mr Aly shows little insight into the politics and influences in the Middle East and even less on the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. My Aly is one of our better public thinkers and it is a shame he didn't do better with this opinion piece.